The prevalence of Cryptosporidium, and identification of the Cryptosporidium horse genotype in foals in New York State

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 174, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 139-144

  Burton, A J ^a   Nydam, D V ^a   Dearen, T K ^b   Mitchell, K ^a   Bowman, D D ^a   Xiao, L ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidiosis; Cryptosporidium; Equine; Foal; Genotype; Molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 60; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOAL; GENOTYPE; HORSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EQUIDAE;

EID: 78049386085     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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